Read Ephesians 3:14-21

Perhaps one of the biggest problems that you and I struggle with is that we too often underestimate two things: (1) what God is capable of, and (2) what God wants for us. Some of us think that the gospel is only good for heaven and the life to come. This leads us to treat Christianity as a one-time decision—that if I just make the decision or pray a prayer to trust in Jesus, I get a “get out of hell free” card. But God’s will for you goes beyond a one-time decision. God actually wants you to experience the fullness of life that comes from knowing how much He loves you now, and also how powerful you can be in this world when you’re rooted in His love. 

Jesus told his disciples that if they prayed with faith the size of a mustard seed (perhaps the tiniest seed known in Jesus’s day), their prayers could move mountains (Matt. 17:20). Today, when we hear those words, most of us write it off as hyperbolic and unbelievable. But Jesus, in saying these words, wants to confront us: do you believe in a weak god or do you believe in a God who’s capable of doing the impossible? Do you believe in a god that only works in categories that you can understand/explain, or do you believe in a God “who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think”? (Eph. 3:20)

What might your prayers sound like if you regularly believed God could handle the impossible things in your life? How different would your life look if you actually trusted in a God who makes ways out of no ways? We need to stop short-changing who God is and what he’s capable of, and we need to start living as confident sons and daughters of Almighty God.